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cross platform c++ development Anonymous 04/24/15 (Fri) 16:05:54 dc09e8 No.2244

Microsoft visual studio baby here.

I'm working on a C++ project and I want to put it on my git but I don't want to exclude Linux users so I'd like to know how to get into cross platform c++ compiling.

All I know about compiling my C++ projects is how to open a visual studio project and press "build".

I've never worked with Linux before so I could seriously use some help here.

Anonymous 04/24/15 (Fri) 17:35:07 fe1dab No.2245

>>2244

Do you seriously think Microsoft would let you do that? Look into ports of GCC in MinGW or Cygwin. Otherwise, use Linux as your host.

Anonymous 04/24/15 (Fri) 18:57:37 7d57b7 No.2247

or use qt-creator. if the .pro file requires a patch it will be a few lines only so just accept a pull request when you get one.

Anonymous 04/26/15 (Sun) 00:53:03 59a21f No.2258

>>2244

Codeblocks has a great VS project file importer. You should download it and create a separate codeblocks project file for linux / osx builds.

Anonymous 04/26/15 (Sun) 10:23:16 9bbd95 No.2264

>>2245

>Do you seriously think Microsoft would let you do that?

Actually, MS really, really wants MS shit on GNU+Linux - so badly that they've released the source code of .NET.

Anonymous 06/17/15 (Wed) 22:38:46 c38c74 No.2626

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i'm getting fed up little by little with projects that don't provide MSVC solutions.

64 bit mingw + msys is pain to get working, especially linking qt (can't get mgba and gambatte compile at all in windows. Neither makefiles or generated msvc solutions work. - help is appreciated..).

Anonymous 06/18/15 (Thu) 08:00:37 56269b No.2627

>>2626

not sure if i understand you correctly but are you seriously using windows and complaining about how much effort it is to fix linker and include issues and compile software in general?

do you also eat fast food and complain about being unhealthy?

Anonymous 06/18/15 (Thu) 10:23:58 c38c74 No.2630

>>2626

ok managed to build mGBA after switching qt version to qt-5.4.2-x64-mingw510r0-sjlj-opengl from seh version.

>>2627

I know its not fair to complain since these programs compile just fine under slackware and they do have windows binaries available.

Anonymous 06/18/15 (Thu) 19:05:26 c38c74 No.2632

>>2630

managed to build gambatte too. Earlier it failed due to missing imports in SCons scripts and wrong qt version.